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  • Shakespeare's Local: Six Centuries of History, One Pub

  • Written by: Pete Brown
  • Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
  • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

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Shakespeare's Local: Six Centuries of History, One Pub

Written by: Pete Brown
Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
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Publisher's Summary

Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge: a cosy, wood-panelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Consider this: who else has made this their local over the last 600 years? Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims almost certainly drank in the George on their way to Canterbury. Shakespeare may have popped in from the nearby Globe, and we know that Dickens definitely did. Mail carriers changed their horses here, while sailors drank here before sailing.

The pub, as Pete Brown points out, is the 'primordial cell of British life' and in the George he has found the perfect case study. All life is here, from murderers, highwaymen and ladies of the night to gossiping pedlars and hard-working clerks. So sit back and enjoy a tour through six centuries of history, through the stories of everyone that ever drank in one pub.

©2012 Peter Brown (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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